The church Saint-Julien in Bansat

Take the direction of Saint-Martin des Plains on the road D123, and then the road D24 in direction of Bansat.

This church and its priory (today disappeared) depended on the abbey-church of La Chaise-Dieu in the end of the 11th century. However, the actual building doesn’t seem to be before to the first third of the 13th century. Located at the centre of the fortified village of Bansat, the building has in all probability been fortified in the 15th century. The church, in a gothic style, is composed of a polygonal choir of the 13th century and a nave covered with a vault divided with cross-springers. She might have been constructed secondly in the 13th century-early 14th century. The nave presents capitals sculpted with vegetables, contrasting with the choir decorated with faces or masks, and with crowned people. We notice the transition between Romanesque and Gothic sculptures which slides from an imaginary world to a more realistic representation.